distortion from my drum track

[RifferT82]

hey I find that when I load ezdrummer 2 into my cubase AI 9 Daw on my computer, windows 10 (64 bit), 16GB RAM, when I just have the ezdrummer instrument track running it sounds fine.  When I add another audio track (distorted guitar), I use vst plugins, then the drums get distorted as well.  I know it has to be something with the routing but I am new to digital recording and don’t know where to look to fix it  or how.   Any help is greatly appreciated.   Thanks 

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

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[RifferT82]

I have also been getting an audio error message when using ezdrummer 2 in my daw and it freezes everything up.  Not sure what to do with that.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[Shootie]

Are either of you familiar with buffer sizes, whether in your DAW or with EZD2 standalone? If so, did making it bigger help your issues?

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[RifferT82]

I am familiar with the buffer size.  I have not played too much with it.  I believe I have it set at 192.  I’ve also had it higher and lower and I didn’t notice any change.  Again I have not really played with that all that much.  Would a higher level be better?  Say 512 vs 192?

[Shootie]

Crank it up to see if the problem goes away. We can chat about optimizing if this is in fact your problem. I don’t know what processor you have, but I have twice as much ram with i7 6core and I use 128 or less for recording and 512+ for mixing depending on project size. If I was on a weaker computer these numbers would probably be higher.

Making the number smaller might crash your computer, not larger though, so test it out.

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[RifferT82]

Ok I will try that when I get time tonight.   I always thought that the lower the number was easier to run.  Especially for latency.  But I am still very new at this.  I have a brand new computer with i7, 8 core cpu.  So that shouldn’t be the problem.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[Shootie]

Yes, lower number lower latency. As I said, I use lower numbers when recording, lower the number the more your computer gets taxed, which is typically when computers run into issues, when the number is low.

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[RifferT82]

Ok so I maxed out the buffer and its the same.  Whats happening is when I go to my guitar track and choose a distorted guitar sound.  That effect seems to go on the drums as well instead of just going on the guitar.   So basically the amp sim is playing through the drums too.  But they are separate tracks so I don’t understand why its doing this.  Any ideas?

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[John]

Hi,

perhaps a screen shot of the mixer could help troubleshooting?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[RifferT82]

How do you screen shot on a computer?  Sorry I have never done this before.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[Shootie]

RifferT82 wrote:

How do you screen shot on a computer?  Sorry I have never done this before.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

You could take a pic with your cell phone if you’re desperate. On PC hit Print Screen. Then open any image editor on your computer. Paint should already be your OS. Start a new file and hit paste. What was captured with Print Screen will be pasted into your new Paint file. Save as .jpg.

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[RifferT82]

ok so here is a screenshot.  hope this helps.  thanks.

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: Windows 10

[RifferT82]

Heres the mixer in EZdrummer 2.

[Scott]

What does the Cubase Mixer look like? You have multi output routing in EZD2 and the Cubase project window isn’t showing those channels. Are they showing in the Cubase mixer? Are there any group channels in the Mixer that the drum channels and guitar channel are bussed to? Does your 2 bus have plugins on it?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[RifferT82]

How do you find out if you have a group channel?  all of the group routing is there i just have it minimized.  The guitar is bussed to a mono channel.  When I open ezdrummer in my daw as an insert it automatically makes its own setup and I dont know how to change that.  So it very well could be sharing a channel together but I don't know where or how to change that?

[Scott]

The routing is at the top of the Cubase Mixer. Well, it is if you have it visible from the Mixer Rack menu anyway. You can then see where each channel is routed to.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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